![]() Waves NX on the other hand really pushed the frontal image out further, emulating better my sense of what speakers in a room sound like. It's particularly effective for images close to the L and R extremes of the soundstage: these sit right out of the the head, and older-style over-hyped stereo recordings (think Bill Evans' Night at the Village Vanguard or most the Beatles's stereo catalogue) actually sounded really satisfying, despite the overzealous panning. IMHO, Can Opener is worthy for having virtually no effect (post-EQ) on perceived tonal balance while nevertheless successfully pushing the stereo image slightly outside the head. In terms of spatialization plugins, this was a revelation to me I now can't imagine going back to using these headphones without one. However, the general curve of the Harman target, with slightly boosted bass and somewhat recessed highs relative to a flat diffuse field response, does seem to agree with me: in the end, I went for a curve somewhere in between the two. Overall, I found further confirmation that the Harman curve doesn't match my idea of a smooth, neutral frequency response, coming across as overly warm/dark and too aggressive in the bass (I've previously found this with other headphones, too). I settled on these measurements as my starting point, as they were taken on GRAS43AC/43AG: of audio for videos intended for online publication).Īnyway, I have a bit of time on my hands, so I decided to see what I could do to get these headphones sounding as good as possible, with a secondary goal of providing a neutral reference for basic mixing.įortunately, there are plenty of measurements of these headphones (or the acoustically identical HD650) available online. I've previously used headphones for low-stakes mixing (e.g. I also dabble in mixing/mastering music, and have been missing that too while down here. I've never been a big fan of headphones, but now that I'm here for at least another 6 weeks, I'd started to miss high-quality audio. Having found myself unexpectedly stranded in Australia due to covid19, and without headphones or access to a decent speaker system, I bought myself a pair of HD6XX a couple of weeks ago. I thought I'd share here what I've learnt. I recently went about doing all I could to improve the sound of my pair of HD6XX.
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